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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. By considering women's voices in performance, this book provides a fresh perspective on women's 'writing'. It shows that our understanding of femininity in ancient Greece can be expanded by going beyond poetry composed by women poets like Sappho to explore girls' and women's choral songs from the archaic period. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen´s University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780773534490
- ISBN
- 9780773534490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.98
€ 40.99
€ 38.98
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816669776
- ISBN
- 9780816669776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Paperback. Offers a comprehensive overview of women's autobiography. This book provides historical back-ground and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. It is a useful tool for courses in autobiography, literature by women, and women's studies. Editor(s): Kimmich, Allison B.; Brownley, Martine Watson. Series: Worlds of Women Series. Num Pages: 215 pages, bibliography, notes. BIC Classification: BGA; DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842027021
- ISBN
- 9780842027021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Paperback. Explodes the myth that Lewis was a misogynist and shows how his approach to women is pertinent to contemporary culture. Editor(s): Curtis, Carolyn; Key, Mary Pomroy. Num Pages: 288 pages, Black and white pics of contributors in text. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Lion Hudson
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745956947
- ISBN
- 9780745956947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602878
- ISBN
- 9780230602878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.33€ 50.34
€ 78.33
€ 50.34
Hardback. These essays by renowned feminist scholars re-think the methods and content of contemporary feminist history. The vibrant work of feminist literary historians in the last three decades has produced a new archive of knowledge on women's writing and new narratives of the cultrual past. But, these essays ask, where has this revisioning taken us? Editor(s): Binhammer, Katherine; Wood, Jeanne. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874138245
- ISBN
- 9780874138245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.68
€ 130.68
hardcover. This book focuses on the popular fiction of Weimar Germany and explores the relationship between women, the texts they read, and the society in which they lived. A complex picture emerges that shows women talking center stage, not only in the fiction but also in the reality that shaped its fictional representations. Num Pages: 196 pages, bibliog, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 403.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571811547
- ISBN
- 9781571811547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.99
€ 161.99
Hardcover. Wai-yee Li examines the discursive space of women in seventeenth-century China. Using texts written by women or by men writing in a feminine voice, as well as writings that turn women into signifiers of lamentation or nostalgia, Li probes the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and subsequent moments of national trauma. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 625 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492042
- ISBN
- 9780674492042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.96€ 64.03
€ 69.96
€ 64.03
Paperback. "Women and Romance" includes historical as well as contemporary selections, personal letters as well as theoretical essays, and social science perspectives as well as literary criticism of the novel and the popular mass-market romance. Editor(s): Weisser, Susan Ostrov. Num Pages: 492 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 255 x 34. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 492
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814793558
- ISBN
- 9780814793558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Electronic book text. This collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of 'Women and the Gothic'. Editor(s): Horner, Avril (Kingston University); Zlosnik, Sue (Manchester Metropolitan University). Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425568
- ISBN
- 9781474425568
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.00
€ 32.99
€ 28.00
Women and the Politics of Self-representation in Seventeenth-century F...
Patricia Francis Cholakian
Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874137354
- ISBN
- 9780874137354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Hardcover. Examining the representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature and culture of the 19th and early 20th century, this book brings together the sensation, realist, and modernist railway narratives by female and male authors, analyzing women's trajectories within and beyond the city but also the nation, as urban passengers, and more. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748676941
- ISBN
- 9780748676941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.81€ 103.50
€ 106.81
€ 103.50
Paperback. This text charts women's contributions to what the author calls the "War Story". It concentrates on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, showing how women who write themselves and their experiences into the "War Story" undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality and glory. Num Pages: 309 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1FB; 1FMV; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206137
- ISBN
- 9780520206137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
Hardback. This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies. Editor(s): Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline; Keith, Alison. Num Pages: 360 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417622
- ISBN
- 9781421417622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.13
€ 75.13
Paperback. Explores how Saudi Arabian women writers have used their art as a means of gaining control over the cultural and political restraints imposed by their society. Nine of the most influential writers are studied in detail, and excerpts of their writings appear here in English for the first time. Num Pages: 357 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 2CSR; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231084215
- ISBN
- 9780231084215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.73
€ 46.99
€ 33.73
hardcover. Using a theoretical approach that utilizes work in literary studies, anthropology, feminist theory, and cultural studies, this book investigates how, in twentieth century China, the modern concepts of the new woman and the new writing developed into a protracted cultural debate over what and how women should and could write. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804731294
- ISBN
- 9780804731294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Hardcover. An examination of how women's writings, over two hundred centuries, shaped public opinion and morality. Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Num Pages: 300 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Royal Historical Society
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861933433
- ISBN
- 9780861933433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
hardcover. Lists references to critical and interpretive studies os the literary output of 169 major and minor Hispanic South American women writers active from the turn of the twentieth century to 1989. Num Pages: 156 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810822634
- ISBN
- 9780810822634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.98
€ 96.98
Hardcover. This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of the discipline, it explores their legacy and provides scholars of today with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had. Editor(s): Wyles, Rosie; Hall, Edith. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 496 pages, 28 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 227 x 33. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198725206
- ISBN
- 9780198725206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 211.66
€ 211.66
Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers: Relational Science,...
Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781498510042
- ISBN
- 9781498510042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.44€ 17.22
€ 104.44
€ 17.22
Paperback. The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations. Its strong humanities content, including illustrations and creative writing, uniquely embraces the creative aspects of the field. Editor(s): Cayleff, Susan E.; Donadey, Anne; Scott, Bonnie Kime; Lara, Irene. Num Pages: 562 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 172 x 31. Weight in Grams: 948.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 562
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118541128
- ISBN
- 9781118541128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.14
€ 45.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; CFF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801485206
- ISBN
- 9780801485206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662223
- ISBN
- 9781855662223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFCK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372. Discourses & Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933. Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. 254 pages, black & white illustrations. New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFCK; JFSJ1. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 14. Weight: 362.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Number of pages
- 254
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135162
- ISBN
- 9781571135162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.31
€ 44.99
€ 37.31